Example sentences of "[noun sg] took place [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action took place before a huge blown-up head and shoulders image of Carmen . |
| 2 | The most notorious confrontation took place around a coking plant at Orgreave , near Sheffield . |
| 3 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 4 | The transfer took place during a natural cycle , and , to date , the pregnancy has gone smoothly . |
| 5 | The test took place in a unique setting : the top deck of an old Bembridge pilot cutter , now the Essex YC 's clubhouse ; this provided a reasonably open setting with little wind shadow . |
| 6 | The investigation took place in a psychiatric unit in a general hospital , where a multidisciplinary team of nurses , social workers , psychiatrists , and general practice trainees is involved in the psychiatric management of attempted suicide patients ( Hawton et al. 1979 ) . |
| 7 | It is thus believed by Catholic conservatives to be not by chance that the incarnation took place in a male human person . |
| 8 | The launch to our own salesforce took place on a regional basis during early October . |
| 9 | The no confidence debate took place in a crowded Knesset on March 15 . |
| 10 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 11 | No members of the 4th or 5th generations are yet affected , though males and females of the 4th generation have now reached adulthood and will soon reach the youngest age at which the first operation took place in an affected family member . |
| 12 | This impressive growth took place despite a significant reduction in capital allowances — which took away some of the benefits of leasing , the introduction of an accounting standard ( SSAP 21 ) requiring lessees to capitalise finance leases and , of course , the longest recession in post-war history . |
| 13 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 14 | The luncheon took place in a giant marquee with windows looking out across the polo field . |
| 15 | Filming took place in a Victorian house in Shepherd 's Bush ; the back of it was used as the production office and the front of it for filming . |